Evolutionary genetics challenges a recent two-person origin for the entire human population. It does not necessarily ...

More than two million years ago, an early human species lived in Africa and represented an important stage in human evolution ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

London, Oct 24 (The Conversation) In September 2018, China Daily ran a story that found its way to my desk ...

Over his six-decade career, UChicago professor championed honest scholarship, diverse perspectives and his students ...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...